21 January, 2011

I have spent the last few weeks working on a new Qt mini project, WHCH ("Working Hours Counter for Humans"), an application for tracking the time spent on individual projects.

For this project I have used QtCreator 2.0.1 (with integrated QtDesigner), which has been a pleasant experience in almost all aspects, although there are two things I was not entirely happy with:

Its flexibility concerning to layouts in the design process. Murray wrote a good resume about this with some screen-shot examples.

Lack of in-depth documentation, in some cases. Although this was counterbalanced by the number of examples available.

I did not use autotools this time, but qmake, which was not such a frightening experience as I thought it would be. Again, the problem at this point was the documentation. At least there are some extra sources here and there to help with this!

What can you do with WHCH?.
- Keep track of the time spent on a task.

- Add new clients.
- Add new tasks related to clients.

- Add a detailed description for a task.
- Modify start/end time and description of a task.

- Export a list of tasks into Wikimedia format

obtaining the following result for the example in the screenshot:

There is still work to be done, as well as new features to be applied, and I already created a list of FIXMEs and TODOs to start with. Check it out and submit your new ideas if you fancy (-;.

You can find and follow the project on GitHub or download the tar.gz. All comments are welcome, as are merge requests.